A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 497
rehistoric or of unknown date, anddistinguished for the size of the rock ma-sses.The most distinguished megalithic monumentis Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, in the southof England. The one which covers the mostground is, if the detached stones arranged inlines and circles be considered all… … f^:. ^-~P^ group consisting of two stones. One stone islaid flatwise or lengthwise upon top of a largerone, or a larger and approximately cylindricalstone is supported upon a smaller one, thewhole bearing a resemblance to a mushroom. Catstone. A form of Menhir. (See bothterms.) Cromlech. A large…
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